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Welcome to the Intelligence task force of the Military history WikiProject! The task force coordinator is Nick Dowling (talk).
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[edit] Scope
This task force covers the military and national security aspects of intelligence gathering. It is not intended to cover all aspects of what may be termed "espionage"; the precise limits of its scope, however, have yet to be defined.
[edit] Participants
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- ALR (talk · contribs) (Mainly interested in strategic analysis, Int management, capability exploitation, the UK Intelligence Machinery and the interface with allies and UK military)
- Hcberkowitz (talk · contribs) (Intelligence cycle including collection, analysis, and dissemination. MASINT,SIGINT,HUMINT. Cleaning up Central Intelligence Agency into manageable series of articles, reducing conspiracies and increasing fact.)
- Folic_Acid (talk · contribs) (US intelligence, intelligence oversight, HUMINT, SIGINT)
- ktr101 (talk · contribs) (USAF Intelligence)
- Mooseberry (talk · contribs) (All types of intelligence, sorting out fact from fiction, codes, U.S.A. codes, etc.)
- ScreaminEagle (talk · contribs) (Seems a bit daunting, but I'll try to help when and where I can)
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[edit] Articles (Starting list with commentary by Howard)
Note there is overlap with Special Operations. are proposals
[edit] The Intelligence Series
- Intelligence cycle management
- Intelligence collection management
- SIGINT+
- MASINT+
- Electro-optical MASINT
- Nuclear MASINT
- Geophysical MASINT
- Radar MASINT should true imaging radar move to IMINT?
- Radiofrequency MASINT
- Materials MASINT
- HUMINT
- Clandestine HUMINT strong tie-in with counterintelligence
- Special reconnaissance also a special operations technique
- Clandestine HUMINT operational techniques
- Clandestine HUMINT and Covert Action (also see Direct action (military))
- OSINT$
- TECHINT$
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- medical intelligence (if it doesn't go under intelligence organizations)
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- IMINT$
- Should imaging radar move here, but not, for example, tracking radar used to determine missile performance? Anything from electro-optical MASINT? My basic rule: IMINT forms pictures, quasi-imaging MASINT gives graphs or property-by-pixel tables'
- Intelligence analysis management
- Intelligence analysis
- Financial intelligence
- economic intelligence, which I'm probably not qualified to write
- medical intelligence if it doesn't go elsewhere
- Intelligence dissemination management
- Intelligence cycle security
- Counterintelligence
- Counterintelligence failures*
- Counter-intelligence and counterterror organizations* (fairly unhappy with what's around
- Counterintelligence
- Intelligence collection management
Articles marked with * either are split out from other lengthy articles and expanded, or of assorted short articles of the class I call "glue", as necessary to connect other articles or provide context, such as Echelons above Corps.
Force multiplication is another tricky one, which then feeds into network-centric warfare as well as takes from John Boyd and the various Special Forces ancestors/
+ articles have daughter articles, some I wrote and some that existed; some merging is probably called for. $ denotes contributions but no major rewrite.
and, with help from others, trying to deal with what are increasingly forced lists. When is an organization "counterintelligence" versus "counterterror"?
[edit] CIA-specific
Cleaning up the overly long single CIA article (ignoring separate regime change), I rationalized and, where possible, sourced decently and also eliminated the more bizarre conspiracy theories (e.g., Swiss under NATO). These new articles include analytic and estimative intelligence, not only covert action.
Obviously, there's a lot of conspiracy theory buffs about, and people have been renaming pages.
The geographic divisions are:
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- CIA Activities by Region: Americas (includes legal and questionable domestic activities)
- CIA Activities by Region: Africa (includes subsaharan Africa)
- CIA Activities by Region: Asia-Pacific
- CIA Activities by Region: Near East, North Africa, South and Southwest Asia
- CIA Activities by Region: Russia and Europe
The initial set of transnational sub-articles are:
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- CIA Activities by Transnational Topic: Terrorism
- CIA Activities by Transnational Topic: Arms Control, WMD, and Proliferation
- CIA Activities by Transnational Topic: Crime and Illicit Drug Trade
- CIA Activities by Transnational Topic: Health and Economy
- CIA Activities by Transnational Topic: Human Rights
[edit] Special Operations
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- Special reconnaissance
- Direct action (military)
- Foreign internal defense still really in rough form; moved part to my sandbox
[edit] National Means of Technical Verification
does this need to go under counterproliferation, which, in turn, requires proliferation to be well defined?
As a result of writing articles on the more exotic technical disciplines of intelligence collection, such as SIGINT and MASINT. As I worked on these, I realized that many of the technologies were important in arms control verification, but, while there were articles on the arms control treaties, there was nothing on the euphemistic National technical means of verification. Earlier editing of a biography of George Kistiakowsky and his invention of the threshold principle of verification also fed into this article. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 18:46, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
This article has numerous links to MASINT technologies, especially Geophysical MASINT, Materials MASINT, and Electro-optical MASINT.
[edit] Miscellaneous Articles with some relationship
- Dino Brugioni
- Arthur C. Lundahl
- George Kistiakowsky
- Project Camelot, Operation MINARET, Project SHAMROCK trying to clean up to reasonable standard
- Swarming (military)
- Force multiplication
[edit] Counterintelligence and related areas
There are some overlaps and confusing writing in some of the more US government policies, relating counterintelligence to operations security and those to other security disciplines. Ironically, I actually encountered some of the information, in the sixties, that explains some of the OPSEC rationale. The documents were "declassify in 3 years" in the late sixties, but they probably are sitting on microfilm somewhere, and I have no idea how to cite them -- I just remember the document series, the general subject of the article, and the specific issues that led to the development of OPSEC discipline.
Anyway, this all intertwines with HUMINT and subordinate articles.
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[edit] To-do
- Attention needed
- ...to referencing and citation (47) • ...to coverage and accuracy (23) • ...to structure (13) • ...to grammar (3) • ...to supporting materials (21)
- Cleanup needed
- Evidenzbureau
- Citations needed
- Admiralty code
- Tagging needed
- Category:Military intelligence
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